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Notes on Foucault

Notes on Foucault. Dr Maurice Mullard . Foucault Description Dealing with the Plague. Provide context for greater surveillance of society Was this about the State of the safeguarding of lives Reporting and the Policing Regulation Politics of Fear. Differences the Plague and the Leper .

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Notes on Foucault

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  1. Notes on Foucault Dr Maurice Mullard

  2. Foucault Description Dealing with the Plague • Provide context for greater surveillance of society • Was this about the State of the safeguarding of lives • Reporting and the Policing • Regulation • Politics of Fear

  3. Differences the Plague and the Leper • The Leper was excluded sent to leprosy colony • Had to declare being unclean gave people chance to go inside • The Plague is more central control • Modern ideas of the Leper HIV Aids • Princess Diane sitting with HIV Ads Victims • Being Quarantined

  4. Parallels with Bentham • The Panopticon • Control Centre • Being Watched • Centralised system • What it says about power

  5. Modern Plagues • Scars about Swine Flu and vaccinations • Mexico first outbreak of the disease • Quarantine • Immigration rules • HIV Aids • Homosexuality

  6. Surveillance State • War on Terror Anti Terrorism legislation • CCTV • Airport Searches • Information sharing • Finger printing • David Lyons on watching and Being Watched • The Public Gaze

  7. State Data Mining • Boundaries of civil liberties and security • State responsible for safety of its citizens • What does this mean • Should we tremble before the state • Fear the state • State monopoly of coercive powers

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